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No. 622,9l8. Patented Apr. ll, I899.

H. FELDMEIER.

COMBINED GHURN AND BUTTER WORKER.

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. UNiTED STATES PATENT OEFIcE;

HARVEY FELDMEIER, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO D. H.

' BURRELL & (30., OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED CHURN AN D' BUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 622,918, dated April11, 1899.

7 Application filed January 11, 1899. Serial No. 701,824. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY FELDMEIER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Little Falls, in the county of Herkimer and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Churn andButter- Worker, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of machines which contain a rotarydrum or cylinder in which the churning operation is car ried on andwhich also contain butter-working rollers by which the butter is workedwhen the churning is completed and the buttermilk has been drawn off.

The object of this invention is to mount the butter-working rollersindependently of the churn, so that the butter-working apparatus can beentirely removed from the churn when not required for use, leaving thechurn unencumbered by such apparatus and enabling one butter-Workingapparatus to be used in two or more churns, thereby simplifying andcheapening the machinery, permitting the parts to be thoroughlyinspected and cleaned, and gaining other advantages.

In the accompanying drawings, consisting of three sheets, Figure 1 is afront elevation of a rotary churn and butter-worker provided with myimprovements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, partly in section.Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the same in line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a vertical longitudinal section in line 4- 4, Fig. 1.

tached from the churn. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal vertical section of thebutter-working v apparatus with the hopper drawn forward on Fig. 5 is aside ele- 'vation of the butter-working apparatus deposed of abase-frame B, an upright front frame B, and a similar rear frame B Therear head A of the drum is a disk,

which closes the rearend of the drum tightly and in which the journal isheld against longitudinal movement by any suitable meansfor instance, bya shoulder 0. and a collar a as shown in Fig. 2.

The front head A of the drum is annular in form and provided with alarge central opening, which is closed for churning in the usual mannerby a removable disk or head. (Not shown in the drawings.) The front headA is provided around this central opening with a forwardly-projectingcircular flange composed of a gear-rim c, which is arranged adjacent tothe head A and a plain-faced rim 0, which projects farther toward thefront and is slightly smaller in diameter than the gear-rim. The latteris used for driving the drum and the plain rim 0 for supporting itsfront end on two rollers O, which are mounted in the front frame B. Thedrum is provided on its inner side with flights or wings c of anysuitable construction, those shown in the drawings being perforated topermit the buttermilk to drain off.

01 represents the driving-shaft, which is arranged horizontally on oneside of the drum and journaled in the front and rear frames B 13*. Thisshaft is provided at its rear end with tight and loose pulleys D D andnear its front end with a gear-wheel E, which is geared with thegear-rim c by an interposed idler-wheel E for driving the drum.

f represents a horizontal counter shaft which is arranged below. thedriving-shaft d and driven from the same by a pinion F and gear-wheel F,arranged on the rear portions of these shafts.

G represents a pinion which is mounted on the front portion of thecounter-shaft and which meshes with the gear-wheel E on thedriving-shaft. The gear-wheelE is mounted loosely on the driving-shaft,but can be coupled tothe shaft. by a clutch e, arranged on the frontside of said wheel. The pinion G is mounted loosely on thecounter-shaft, but can be coupled to the same by a clutch g, arranged onthe rear side of the pinion. The pinion F, gear-wheel F, pinion G, andgearwheel E are so proportioned that when motion is transmitted to thedrum directly through the driving-shaft d and gear-wheel E the drum isrotated at the proper speed for chu rning, while when motion istransmitted to the drum indirectly through the pinion F, gearwheel F,counter-shaft f, pinion G, and gearwheel E the drum is rotated with theproper speed for working the butter, which speed is slower than thechurning speed. For driving the churn directly from the driving-shaft dthe gear-wheel E is coupled to the drivingshaft CZ and the pinion G isuncoupled from the counter-shaft f. For driving the churn indirectlythrough the counter-shaft the gearwheel E is uncoupled from thedriving-shaft d and the pinion G is coupled to the countershaft. v

The butter-working apparatus is constructed as follows:

II represents a carriage or portable frame having at its front end twoposts or standards 71, arranged side by side, and at the lower ends ofthe standards a base-frameh, provided with wheels 71. andprojectingrearwardly from the standards.

porting-bars I, which are secured at their front ends to the upper endsof the standards by brackets z' and which project rearwardly from thestandards or in the same direction in which the base-frame h projectstherefrom. The front ends of the bars I terminate in handles 71, whichare taken hold of by the operator for moving the carriage about.

.I J represent the butter-working rollers,

which are arranged between and below the side bars I. These rollers maybe of anysuitable construction and are represented as corrugated rollersinv the drawings. jj represent the shafts of these rollers,which arejournaled at their rear ends in a cross piece or plate K, which issecured to the rear ends of the bars I and depends below the same, andat their front ends in a cross piece or plate K, which is securedbetween the up er ends of the standards h.

L represents a hopper which is arranged above the rollers and restsloosely upon the bars I. This hopper is composed of inclined side boardsZ, a rear board Z, and a front board Z and is provided with a removableintermediate board v Z which is inclined backwardly and located at sucha distance from the rear end of the hopper that when the butter-workin gapparatus is in its working position in the churn this intermediateboard stands in the opening of the front head and prevents any butterfrom escaping through this opening. This intermediate board is supportedon the inner side of the hopper by any suitable meansfor instance, byinclined cleats Z secured to the inner sides of the side The standardscarry at their upper ends two horizontal sup-- boards of the hopper. Thehopper is provided with a fixed bottom Z which extends from the frontboard Z to the intermediate board Z The inner corners of the bars I arebeveled, as shown at Z in Fig. 3, and the inclined side boards Z of thehopper rest against these inclined faces Z and are provided on theirunder sides with triangular strips Z by which the hopper rests on thehorizontal upper faces of the bars I. The hopper rests in this mannerloosely on the bars I and can be moved back and forth on the same.

L represents a removable bottom board, which is placed in the hopperwhen the butter has been sufficiently worked and it is desired tocollect and remove the butter. This bottom board extends from theintermediate board Z to the rear board Z and is beveled at its sides andends, so as to rest snugly against the inner lower portions of the sideboards Z, rear board Z, and bottom Z of the hopper.

The two butter-working rollers are geared together by gear-wheels m,arranged at the front ends of the rollers and behind the standards.

The roller-shaftj, which is nearest the driving-shaft d, is extendedforwardly beyond the standards and carries in front of the standards thegearing by which the rollers are driven from the driving-shaft d. Thelatter is provided at its front end, in front of the front frame B, witha bevel-wheel n. The roller-shaftj is provided with a similar bevelwheelat, and motion is transmitted from the wheel 0% to the wheel at by atransverse connecting-shaft O, which carries at its ends bevel-wheels O0 meshing, respectively, with the wheels at and n. The shaft 0 isjournaled in a tubular housing P, which carries at its outer end acircular frame 1). The latter surrounds the bevel-wheel O and isprovided beyond this wheel with a sleeve 19, which can be slipped on theprojecting end portion of the driving-shaft (Z and by which the outerend of the tubular housing is supported on this shaft. The housing Pcarries atits inner end a semicircular frame or curved arm 19 whichextends beyond the bevel-wheel O and is provided witha sleeve 11 bywhich the inner end of the housing P is hung on the projecting portionof the lOllGDShfLftj.

When the butter-working apparatus is'disconnected from the churn, thehousing P, containin g the transverse shaft 0, with its bevel- Wheels 0O hangs loosely on the front end of the roller-shaft j, as representedin Fig. 5. In this condition of the butter-working apparatus the lattercan be freely moved about on the floor to any desired position. \Vhen itis desired to use the apparatus in the churn for working the butter, theopening in the front head of the churn is uncovered and thebutter-working apparatus is so moved by the operator that its hopper androllers are inserted-into the drum of the churn through the open headthereof, while its base-frame projects underneath the drum, asrepresented in Figs. 2 and 4. In this position of the ap paratus itsstandards h bear against the front frame B of the churn, to which thestandards may be secured by suitable fastening devices-for instance, byhooks and eyes I) Z).

In order to facilitate the introduction of the rollers and hopper intothe drum in the proper working position, a track R, of angle orothersuitable rails, may be arranged on the base-frame B lengthwise under thechurn, upon which the wheels of the roller-carriage are run and whichguides and confines the carriage to its proper position. These railsrest upon the cross-pieces of the bottom frame B, and when that'frameprojects above the floor a suitable sloping approach can be arranged onfront of the bottom frame for guiding the wheels of the carriage fromthe floor to the rails. The transverse shaft 0 is now engaged, with itsbevel-wheels 0 0 respectively, with the bevel-wheel n on thedrivingshaft d and the bevel-wheel n on the rollershaft j by slippingthe sleeve p at the outer end of the housing onto the driving-shaft andthen moving the housing backwardly until both wheels 0 0 are properly inmesh with the wheels 11 n. The housing P is then secured in thisposition by a clasp Q, which is attached to the front frame B and whichembraces the housing. The bottom board L is removed from the hopper L,and the clutches on the driving-shaft and countershaft are so shiftedthat the drum is driven at the proper slow speed indirectly through thecounter-shaft. Power is now applied to the driving-shaft, and the drumand the rollers are rotated. The wings of the drum elevate the butterand deliver the same into the hopper L, from which it passes between therollers, by which it is worked and from which it drops upon the lowerportion of the drum to be again elevated. When the butter has beensufficiently worked,the drum is stopped, while the rotation of therollers is continued. This clears the rollers and the hopper of butter.The intermediate board 1 is then removed from the hopper and the loosebottom board L is placed in the same, so that the bottom of the hopper,composed of the fixed board Z and the removable board L, now extendswithout break from the front to the rear of the hopper. The drum is thenstarted, and as the butter drops on the hopper it is spread by a spadeor ladle until a sufficient quantity has accumulated. The hopper is thendrawn out of the drum on the supporting-bars I to such a distance thatthe operator can conveniently remove the butter from the hopper.

WVhen the hopper has been emptied, it is pushed back into place in thedrum and another batch of butter is collected and removed. Thisoperation is continued until all the butter has been removed from thedrum. During this operation of filling and emptying the hopper the frameand rollersof the butter-workin g apparatus remain in their workingposition in relation to the drum and are not disturbed, only the hopperbeing moved out and back.

This construction of the butter-working apparatus and its arrangementwith reference to the drum of the churn enablesone working apparatus tobe used successively with several churns, thereby doing away with thenecessity of providing each churn with a working apparatus. It locatesthe working rollers very low in the churn, whereby ample space isprovided above the rollers for a large receiving-hopper and the interiorof the churn is well exposed to view. The operation of working cantherefore be well observed and can be stopped at the proper time, sothat overworking can be avoided. This construction also permits theuniform salting of the butter, because the salt can be thrown from timeto time upon the butter as the latter goes through the rollers. Thelarge hopper insures the complete delivery of the butter to the rollersand prevents butter from falling down on one side or against-the sidesofthe rollers, where the butter would be liable to i become pasted againstthe side boards of the finished, and the working apparatus, as well asthe interior of the-churn, can be thoroughly and conveniently examinedand clean ed when the operation is finished and the working apparatushas been removed from the churn.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with a rotary drum having anopen head and its stationarysupporting-frame, of a portable carriage orframe detached from the drum and its supportingframe, and butter-workingrollers mounted on said independent carriage or frame and adapted to beinserted into the drum through the open head thereof and to be removedtherefrom by moving said carriage or frame toward or from the drumaudits supportingframe, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a rotary drum having an open head and itsstationary supporting-frame, of a portable carriage, adapted to be movedabout on the floor, and butter-working rollers supported on saidcarriage and adapted to be inserted into the drum through the open headthereof and to be removed therefrom by moving the carriage in the properdirection, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with a rotary drum having an open head and itsstationary supporting-frame, of a portable carriage or frame, adapted tobe moved about independent of the drum and its supporting-frame,butterworking rollers supported on said carriage or frame and a hopperarranged on said carriage or frame above said rollers, said rollers andhopper being adapted to be inserted into and removed from the dru onthrough the open head thereof by moving said portable frame orcarriagetoward or from the drum and its supporting-frame, substantially as setforth.

4. The combination with a rotary drum having an open head, of aremovable butterworker, adapted to be placed in said drum through saidopen head and composed of a supporting-frame, butter-working rollers, a

hopper arranged above said rollers and a removable bottom adapted to beplaced in said hopper, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with a rotary drum having an open head and itsstationary supporting-frame, of a portable carriage or frame adapted tobe moved about independent of the drum and its supporting-frame,butterworking rollers supported in said carriage or frame, a hopperarranged on said carriage or frame above said rollers, and a removablebottom adapted to be placed in said hopper for collecting the butterdelivered to the same, said rollers and hopper being adapted to beinserted into the drum through the open head thereof, substantially asset forth.

6. The combination with the butter-Working rollers and theirsupporting-frame, of a hopper arranged above said rollers and capable ofbodily movement on said supportingframe in the longitudinal direction ofsaid rollers, substantially as set forth.

7. The combination with the butter-Working rollers, of asupporting-frame having longitudinal side bars arranged on oppositesides of said rollers, and a hopper mounted on said side bars andcapable of movement on said bars in the longitudinal direction of saidrollers, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination With a rotary dru m having an open head, of abutter-Worker adapted to be placed in said drum through said open headand composed of a supporting-frame having its upper portion projectinginto said drum, butter-working rollers mounted in said upper portion ofthe frame, and a hoppersupported on said upper portion of the frameabove said rollers and capable of movement on the frame in the axialdirection of the drum, substantially as set forth.

9. The combination with the butter-working rollers, of a hopper arrangedabove said rollers and provided with a removable intermediate board, afixed bottom in front of said intermediate boardand a removable bottomin rear of the same, substantially as set forth.

10. A portable butter-workeradapted to be combined with a rotary drumhaving an open head and containing a carriage having its baseframe andits upper horizontal portion extendin g from its upright portionrearwardly, or in the same direction, and butter-Working rollersarranged in the upper portion of said carriage, substantially as setforth.

1 1. A portable butter-worker adapted to be combined with a rotary drumhaving an open head and containingacarriagehavingits base frame and itsupper horizontal portion extending from its upright portion rearwardlyor in the same direction, butter-working rollers arranged in the upperportion of said carriage, and a hopper arranged on said carriage abovesaid rollers, substantially as set forth.

12. The combination with a rotary drum having an open head, of aportable carriage or frame adapted to be moved about independent of saiddrum, butter-Working rollers supported on said carriage or frame, adriving-shaft arranged on one side of said drum and connected with thesame to rotate the same, and a detachable cross-shaft geared at one endwith said driving-shaft and at the other with said rollers,substantially as set forth.

13. The combination with a rotary drum having an open head, of aportable carriage or frame adapted to be moved about independent of thedrum, butter-working rollers supported on said carriage or frame, adrivingshaft arranged on one side of said drum and connected with thesame to rotate the same, a cross-shaft provided at its ends withbevelwheels which mesh with bevel-wheels on the driving-shaft and on oneof the roller-shafts, and a housing in which said cross-shaft isjournaled and which is provided at its ends with sleeves by which it .isconnected with the driving-shaft and one of the roller-shafts,substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 6th day of January, 1899.

. HARVEY FELDMEIER.

Witnesses:

GEO. R. HITOHCOCK, GRIFFITH PRICHARD.

